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Brickbat: Don't Take Your Guns to School

Charles Oliver | 1.25.2013 6:00 AM

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Officials locked down New York's Elmont Memorial High School after someone called 911 to report she saw a student carrying a lime green gun. Police searched the school and eventually find a green and yellow Nerf gun.

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